Sue Mason Poet Free verse

Honor Age

Feeling young inside
   passes a mirror
      screams in horror
         who is She?

So to a defense
    with a cosmetic plastic facade
       in some shame game.
Lipstick coated, mascara bloated
   foundation corroded
      beauty?

The price of  beauty can be
   caustic, corrosive, cancerous
      and oh, to be so young as you feel
         not as you see!

Tell her she is pretty inside
   or she will not embrace truth.
Tell her how wise she is
    or she will have wisdom's pale
        shadowed pain.
Tell her of the beauty  in those with age
    or she may be battered and bruised
        with a knife to stop time.

Change the gray?  Never ...
     I earned it.
Plastic the wrinkles?  Never ...
     I smiled a lot!

I am as I am ...
   Come ... Let's celebrate
       inner Youth,  
          outside Crone!

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